Tubing at Helen

This Saturday we are all going to go float down the river on some
tubes. It is going to cost $3 so, break the bank and meet us at the
church at 9:00 and we will all leave together and be back around
3:00-4:00pm.

Dont wear bikinis.

Vacation...

...Bible School is great.  I get to wear a t-shirt to work every day.  (The same one actually, everyday)  And i get to act like an idiot in front of all the kids and everyone thinks its ok.  If you havent come yet, it is actually pretty fun to watch everything happen.  It is just a swarm of craziness.

its also scary.  i did childrens crusades for 2 summers while in college, so i was asked to help out, and the moment i get in front of the kids there is an amazing responsibility on me.  Kids are so teachable, moldable and want to believe whatever you tell them, so everything that you say is so important.  all that goes on seems to be exaggerated.

But I love it.  You should come tomorrow or the next, before it is all over.

Nightmares

I have had 2 dreams about this class in the last couple of days. The
first one was that I came into the class and there were about 30
people packed into the little room we were in and about the time I
walked in I realized that I hadn't studied my lesson yet! So, I
panicked and woke up.

The second one was that it was a pretty normal class time, but I
tried to teach, and for the entire time I could NOT make a sentence
make sense. I just fumbled and stuttered and restarted over and over
and over. And I wanted to run away and never come back but I
couldnt. It stunk, let's hope that never happens for real.

Just thought y'all might like to hear that i have been dreaming about
y'all.

Hindsight

The saying is true, "hindsight is 20/20." The trouble with hindsight
is that you don't see it until it's too late to do anything about
it. But, what if you can learn from someone else's hindsight? If you
can do that, than you can turn hindsight into foresight and harness
the past to shape the future. It's like your very own time machine.

Whom God Chooseth

When I think of my history....all that God has done in my life....I cant take it all in.  There have been trials, problems, mistakes, heart breaking times that He has used to shape me into more of what He wants.  So often i am stubborn, but He still has a plan and works in my life.  And he will work in yours.  God cares about you too much to leave you alone.  

I found this poem at one of those times when I was broken and didnt understand that God was trying to work in me.....

Whom God Chooseth

by Alfred Flemington

When God wants to drill a man,

And thrill a man,

And skill a man,

When God wants to mold a man

To play the noblest part;

When He yearns with all His heart

To create so great and bold a man

That all the world shall be amazed,

Watch His methods, watch His ways;

How He ruthlessly perfects

Whom He royally elects;

How He hammers him and hurts him,

And with mighty blows converts him

Into trial shapes of clay which

Only God understands;

While his tortured heart is crying

And he lifts beseeching hands;

How He bends but never breaks

When His good He undertakes;

How He uses whom He chooses,

And with every purpose fuses him;

By every act induces him

To try His splendor out—

God knows what He's about.

Focus and Concentration

I dont know if you are a big blog reader, but John Pearson's is a good one.  I thought this was especially good about Focus and Concentration.  Tell me what you think.

"The power of focus and concentration remains largely untapped. This is some great info.

Much of what gets blamed on poor time management is actually the result of splattering ourselves in small quantities against a range of things which we will probably never finish. The man determined to finish a task fully and to know all he can about it will find a multitude of success. The man who doles himself to such a range of tasks as to leave no stone unturned will find nothing built though he touched every stone. O.S. Marden said, "Not many things indifferently, but one thing supremely, is the demand of the hour. He who scatters his efforts in this intense concentrated age, cannot hope to succeed.

Carlyle adds "the weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something; where as the strongest, but dispersing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything."

Delivery tests

Well, you probably have figured out that I am experimenting with this
blog. That could explain why you may have gotten a bunch of
duplicate emails in your inbox the other day.

Well, hopefully that is all over. You should get, at most, one email
a day now with the days posts on the blog.

Hey, its your blog! Comment and write away! Its all open, I made it
that way on purpose.

I figure, why write something no one will read?